explode (original) (raw)

Brian Goetz brian.goetz at oracle.com
Mon Feb 4 12:58:35 PST 2013

Alternative A: overloading on method names. Alternative B: overload on SAMs. This involves three SAMs:

To contrast these:

A has uglier method names, but fewer new types
B has prettier method names (and therefore prettier use site usage), but introduces more new ancillary types and puts more stress on type inference.

Specifically, I am wondering how we're going to represent "explode Foo to ints" -- which is probably an important use case.